"Holly is home for good" thing was new to him and in a way I think the thought of him dating me exclusively scared him at first. When I was all the way across the United States it was safe right? Now...I was home. Commitment is a big thing. So, he decided to date some other people when I got home as well.
I knew that I would not get anywhere with Aaron if I pushed the issue. I was going to have to be patient. REALLY patient. Heavenly Father had a hand in this as well. He wanted me to learn something important from this relationship, and that I did. I had heard several times throughout my life that "love is patient. love is kind." I made a plan. I would not push, but I would be interested when Aaron wanted to go out. I would do nice things for him, but not be overbearing. I would wait for him to pursue me. As much as I disliked that he was dating others, and as much as I didn't want to date others myself, I had to give him that freedom. My little brother Steven set me up with his Principal and we went out. Fun, nice guy, not Aaron. Those of you that have done the "dating other people thing" before know that eventually you start to think about one person more than the others. Luckily, that happened for both Aaron and I.
After several weeks of the dating 1-2 times per week, and dating other people, I went to Aaron's house one night. We were running to the grocery store and he told me to pull over into a car wash. He jumped out and started washing my dirty car before I could even really think about it. I didn't even notice that he snuck a towel in to dry the car. Sneaky he is. When he got back in the car he kissed me for the first time in several weeks. Did this mean he'd chosen me? Really?While making dinner he started telling me his thoughts on this whole daring thing. And that he was grateful that I was patient and he had almost figured things out. He kissed me again and although I didn't want to get false hope, I was positive.
He started inviting me to his mom's house for family dinners and we were spending more time together. We started doing projects on the house, projects on my parents house, setting goals, etc. We probably needed to have a long talk about what all of this was, but we didn't. I didn't push, I stayed the course. Patient. Persistent. Projects.
Finally, one Sunday night in April we had returned from dinner at his mother's house and were making cookies. Aaron was fiddling with his phone and then showed me what he had been doing. He had changed his status on Facebook to, "In a relationship with Holly Harris". I did a double take and then said, "Oh, are we to that point?". He kissed me and said, "yes...we are". That was it, we were officially a couple. Relief!
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